Book review - Pierre Boulez: Organised Delirium (by Caroline Potter)
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
The British Music Society originally issued these pioneer recordings of neglected works on cassette but it is welcome that they...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 05/2013
The unprecedented abundance of top-grade Bartók violin sonata recordings throws both critics and collectors into a state of heady confusion....
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2013
I can’t think of another singer today who could match Susan Graham in an eclectic programme ranging across three centuries,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2013
A fast-rising operatic star in Austria and Germany, Israeli soprano Chen Reiss follows her delightful CD of 18th-century arias (11/11)...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2013
A thoughtfully planned programme takes us back to the dawn of the 20th century, as heady late Romanticism was giving...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2013
In purist terms, plainchant accompanied by organ harmonisation is an anachronism, and, though still widespread in church, it doesn’t often...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2013
What lies beyond the usual Falla songs that represent Spanish repertoire in vocal recitals? The initial answer in this disc...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2013
Rich and quite strange, to paraphrase Shakespeare, is the only possible summation of this dazzling, bewildering collection of songs written...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2013
More than any other singer, Matthias Goerne conjures a Schubert who once allegedly said of himself, ‘Sometimes it seems as...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2013
Goffredo Petrassi’s range as a composer was far wider than his eight Concertos for Orchestra (8/05) might suggest, encompassing opera,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2013
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
These are engaging, spontaneous-sounding performances that if widely heard could well spark off a...
Richard Bratby charts the relationship between the conductor and his Italian orchestra
‘Mengelberg’s performances – like Furtwängler’s – were for the most part products of careful...
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